Theme: Marvin Gaye, Heard it Through the Grapevine

All the President's Men

Together, the Vietnam War and Watergate not only reduced public trust in government but damaged the credibility of official government sources in providing explanations of events.  This, in turn, made the relationship between leaders and reporters more adversarial and, following the notoriety achieved by Woodward and Bernstein, ushered in an era of “investigative journalism.”

The Saga of Watergate

There were three phases in the Scandal:

(1) The Burglary and Cover up (June through December 1972)

(2) The Expose of the Cover Up (January-October of 1973)

(3) The "End Game" and Nixon's Resignation (November 1973-August 1974)

(4) The Impact

Dramatis Personae

        
The Watergate Burglars
(including "masterminds" G. Gordon Liddy, to the left, and E. Howard Hunt, on the right)

  
Washington Post
 Reporter Carl Bernstein, Publisher Kay Graham, Reporter Bob Woodward, Editor Benjamin Bradlee

Attorney General and Head of CREEP, John Mitchell

Assistant Director of CREEP, Jeb Stuart Magruder

Assistant to John Mitchell and  later Counsel to the President, John Dean

Chief of Staff H.R. "Bob" Haldemann

Counsel to the President and Domestic Policy Chief, John Erlichman

Secretary of Commerce, Maurice Stans

Counsel to the President, Charles Colson
 

"Dirty Tricks Artist," Donald Segretti

Woodward and Bernstein, Then and Now

Deep Throat
The Character: Hal Holbrook
The Real: Mark Felt, Then and Now